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Beckett Park Library
Entidad colectiva · fl. 1912 - 1996

The City of Leeds Training College was formed in 1907. In 1913 a purpose built training college was opened in the grounds of the former Kirkstall Grange estate bought from the Beckett family. In 1933 Carnegie Hall was built on the same estate, to house the Carnegie College of Physical Training. A library was formed in the City of Leeds Training College and from 1912 this was housed in the Educational Block (today known as the James Graham Building). The hostels on the training college site each housed a Library but how extensive these were has not been established. From 1933 onwards Carnegie College had its own separate Library in Carnegie Hall. In 1968 the training college by then renamed City of Leeds College of Education was merged with the renamed Carnegie College of Physical Education to form the City of Leeds and Carnegie College and the separate libraries were combined. The College merged with Leeds Polytechnic in 1976 and the Library was retained at Beckett Park. In 1992 Leeds Polytechnic became Leeds Metropolitan University. The Library was renamed Beckett Park Learning Centre in 1996, in 2004 it became Headingley Campus Library.

Tom Pevsner
Persona · 1926-2014

Tom Pevsner was a producer, director and screenplay writer, the son of the noted art and architecture scholar Sir Nikolaus Pevsner.
Pevsner served in the Army from 1944-48 and studied Modern Languages at Cambridge before entering the film industry at Ealing Studios in 1951. He donated his collection to the Northern Film School after interacting with the staff and students during the assessment work he was undertaking. The collection was first placed in the City Campus Library in 2005, and he wished it would be made available to film scholars.
The collection includes film scripts, screenplays, and storyboards, many annotated by Pevsner and others. These give a rare insight into the workings of film production. The films cover a large period of British film-making, ranging from the 1950s to the 1990s, and include Ealing Studios' "The Ladykillers" to James Bond and "Goldeneye."

John Roy Hunter
Persona · 1923-

Born in York in 1923, he attended Leeds School of Architecture from 1947 to 1950 and graduated with a Dip. Arch. ARIBA. During WW2, he served in North Africa and Italy. During the war, he worked on design projects, including docks, rail and road bridges, and reconstruction work in the post-war period.
After graduation, he worked on the design and planning of housing projects in new towns, including Stevenage and Cumbernauld, in the 1950s and 1960s. He later worked in the directorate of the Ministry of Housing and Local Government. Later, he lectured on urban and regional planning at Strathclyde University before retiring in the mid-1980s.